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The European Solar Telescope will see its first light in 2027
The Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome has hosted today the first European presentation of the European Solar Telescope (EST) in the frame of the...
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NewsThe evolutionary history of the Milky Way determined in more detail than everThanks to data from the Gaia mission, of the European Space Agency (ESA), and international team led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
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TalkThe evolutionary history of the Milky Way disk(s) and halo from Gaia colour-magnitude diagram fittingGaia has provided distances and photometry, and thus colour-magnitude diagrams in the absolute plane, for stars over a large volume in the Milky Way...
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NewsThe exhibition “AstrónomAs” which gives visibility to women in Astronomy has arrrived in TenerifeIt can be visited in the Museum of Science and the Cosmos until 22nd May. Next Wednesday, April 6th, there will be an inauguration ceremony with the women...
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NewsThe extreme CNO-enhanced composition of a primitive iron-poor dwarf starWe present an analysis of high-resolution Keck/HIRES spectroscopic observations of J0815+4729, an extremely carbon-enhanced, iron-poor dwarf star. These high...
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NewsThe first image of a new gaseous component in a planetary nebula.These results, published by a team led from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, and obtained using the OSIRIS instrument on the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS...
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NewsThe first images associated with a source of gravitational wavesThe IAC has participated in the detection of the counterpart, in the visible, the infrared and X-rays, of the source of gravitational waves GW170817 (neutron...
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NewsThe first “ultrahot Neptune” is discoveredA team of astronomers from the University of Chile, in collaboration with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL)...
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TalkThe formation of Milky Way-mass galactic disc structure in cosmological simulationsRecent years have seen impressive development in cosmological simulations for spiral disc galaxies like the Milky Way. I present a suite of high-resolution...